Current exhibitions
Aideen Barry
Oblivion Seachmalltacht - ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ
Until Sunday 30 October
Admission free
From Monday to Sunday: 2pm-6pm
Wednesday : 2pm-8pm
This ambitious new work by Aideen Barry combines performance, moving image and sound installation. The artist responds to the threat to culture and human existence posed by war, pandemic and environmental challenges with this visually spectacular call-to-arms. The role of the artist is seen as primordial and Aideen Barry finds inspiration in Edward Bunting who largely prevented Irish harp music from disappearing in the 19th century. For this apocalyptical manifesto, she collaborates with harpist Aisling Lyons, conceptual fashion designer Margaret O’Connor, and Canadian electro musician RIIT ᕇᑦ, who is keeping Inuit throat singing alive following a decades-long ban in the 20th century. This work is the 2020 Bunting commission by Irish Traditional Music Archive (ITMA) and Music Network. Listen here to tunes collected by Edward Bunting and recorded in the ITMA studio: ITMA | The Edward Bunting Digital Harp Collection
Conquering the Unknown
Until Friday 28 October
Admission free
From Monday to Friday : 2pm-6pm
From the end of the Middle Ages until the beginning of the 19th century, travellers’ accounts played a central role in pushing back the confines of the unknown – not only in the realm of geography but for scientific exploration as a whole. Thanks to its collection of remarkable and very rare books in this domain, the Old Library of the CCI offers the opportunity to journey through space, from the Holy Land to the Coral Sea via the Canadian North, as well as through time, in the company of different travellers across the centuries. The various motives and identities of these travellers come to the fore as well as the important part they played in collecting and spreading information that seemed worthy of interest.
This exhibition is presented in our Old Library in partnership with the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève as part of the 2022 thematic year on scientific travels.
Scientific direction: Ladislas Latoch, PhD student in Early Modern History, Sorbonne Université and Research Fellow, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève
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